An NHS review into the health of LGBT+ people has been announced. While welcome, to be meaningful it will need to lead to ...

BMI is widely used to measure levels of obesity, but does it account for growing levels of ethnic diversity in this country – ...

There are lots of unknowns about the government’s proposed fair pay agreement in social care, says Simon Bottery, but the biggest is who will have to swallow the cost.

In recent times, general practice has had to respond to rising volume and increasing complexity of need, with each full-time GP now responsible for an average of 2,257 patients – 320 more than in 2015 ...

Simon Bottery comments on the latest Skills for Care workforce report, an annual report that documents the size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in England.

In 2016 the NHS remained popular with the public, read the analysis of the British Social Attitudes 2016, which looks at public satisfaction with the NHS.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for up to 25% of premature deaths in the UK, 80% of which are preventable. We explore the role integrated care systems could play in scaling up the ...

The crisis vice Although it is rarely considered in the current debate about public service reform, this new era of crisis is of enormous relevance when imagining the future of the public sector and ...

‘Topic avoidance’ is the academic study of how people avoid discussing important issues across a wide range of situations. Commonly avoided topics, apparently, include politics, money, sex, religion, ...

David Buck welcomes the Scottish government’s framework for population health, and argues that England needs an equivalent, despite the 10 Year Health Plan.